Vol. 6, Issue 1, Part B (2024)

In the pursuit of holistic well-being, the role of psychological adjustment is indispensable. The present study focuses on the adjustment level of the college students belonging to Forced Single parent and Single-parent family. A sample of 120 college students from diverse fields completed self-report assessments, with 60 participants from forced single-parent families and 60 from single-parent families. Data was randomly selected from Kumauni region of Uttarakhand. The adjustment inventory developed by Sinha and Sinha (2012) was used. In the current study, 2x2 factorial (ANOVA) design was used for investigating the adjustment level in different groups by using SPSS. The findings revealed that the significant difference was found at 0.05 level between the type of family on home and educational level of adjustment. Furthermore, the findings indicate that there was significant difference at 0.05 level was found in male and female on the level of emotional adjustment. And non-significant differences were found at 0.05 level based on gender in other dimension of adjustment. Additionally, a significant interaction effect at 0.05 level between type of family and gender on social and educational adjustment level was also observed.